Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnel decapsulation feature of the Snort 3 Detection Engine that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an unexpected restart of the Snort 3 Detection Engine.
This vulnerability is due to improper handling of nested GRE traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted GRE payload through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to trigger an unexpected reload of the Snort 3 Detection Engine, resulting in either a bypass or denial of service (DoS) condition, depending on device configuration. For more information, see the section of this advisory. The Snort 3 Detection Engine will restart automatically. No manual intervention is required.
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Configurations
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History
21 Oct 2026, 17:18
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Information
Published : 2026-10-21 17:18
Updated : 2026-10-22 14:17
NVD link : CVE-2026-20221
Mitre link : CVE-2026-20221
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-20221
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Products Affected
No product.
CWE
CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference
